{"product_id":"into-perfect-spheres-such-holes-catherine-barnett-9781882295456","title":"Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe family response to the sudden deaths of the speaker's two young nieces is at the center of Catherine Barnett's award-winning first collection. This series of elegies records the transit of grief, observing with an unflinching eye how a singular traumatic event can permanently alter our understanding of time, danger, the material world and family. Marked by clarity and restraint, these lyric poems narrate a suspenseful, wrenching story that explores the depths and limits of empathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Living Room Altar\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcept for the shirt pulled from the ocean, \u003cbr\u003eexcept for her hands, which keep folding the shirt, \u003cbr\u003eexcept for her body, which once held their bodies, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emy sister wants everything back now-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf there were a god who could out of empty shells\u003cbr\u003ecarried by waves to shore\u003cbr\u003emake amends-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf the ocean saved in a jar\u003cbr\u003ecould keep from turning to salt-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe's hearing things: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebird calling to bird, \u003cbr\u003ecat outside the door, \u003cbr\u003ethorn of the blackberry against the trellis.\u003cp\u003e\"These heart-breaking poems of an all-too-human life stay as absolute as the determined craft which made them. There is finally neither irony nor simple despair in what they record. Rather, it is the far deeper response of witness, of recognizing what must be acknowledged and of having the courage and the care to say so.\" --Robert Creeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catherine Barnett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1882295455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781882295456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.42w x 0.24d","brand":"Catherine Barnett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939058942207,"sku":"9781882295456","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1ece4dd8-6fc9-4207-9e68-3eea5e3ebe4f.jpg?v=1681439252","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/into-perfect-spheres-such-holes-catherine-barnett-9781882295456","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}